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VERB (10)

1. restate (words) from one language into another language;
- Example: "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."
- Example: "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"
- Example: "She rendered the French poem into English"
- Example: "He translates for the U.N."
[syn: translate, interpret, render]

2. change from one form or medium into another;
- Example: "Braque translated collage into oil"
[syn: translate, transform]

3. make sense of a language;
- Example: "She understands French"
- Example: "Can you read Greek?"
[syn: understand, read, interpret, translate]

4. bring to a certain spiritual state;

5. change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation;

6. be equivalent in effect;
- Example: "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"

7. be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way;
- Example: "poetry often does not translate"
- Example: "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"

8. subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body;

9. express, as in simple and less technical language;
- Example: "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"
- Example: "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"

10. determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Translate \Trans*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Translated; p. pr. & vb. n. Translating.] [f. translatus, used as p. p. of transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation.] 1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic] --Dryden. [1913 Webster] In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster] 2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death. [1913 Webster] 3. To remove to heaven without a natural death. [1913 Webster] By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim. --Heb. xi. 5. [1913 Webster] 4. (Eccl.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." --Camden. [1913 Webster] 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words. [1913 Webster] Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 6. To change into another form; to transform. [1913 Webster] Happy is your grace, That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease. [1913 Webster] 8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [Obs.] --J. Fletcher. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Translate \Trans*late\, v. i. To make a translation; to be engaged in translation. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

translate v 1: restate (words) from one language into another language; "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N." [syn: translate, interpret, render] 2: change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil" [syn: translate, transform] 3: make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" [syn: understand, read, interpret, translate] 4: bring to a certain spiritual state 5: change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation 6: be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power" 7: be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English" 8: subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body 9: express, as in simple and less technical language; "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?" 10: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

72 Moby Thesaurus words for "translate": English, alter, assign, carry, carry over, change, communicate, consign, construe, convert, convey, decipher, decode, deliver, deport, diffuse, dispatch, disseminate, elucidate, expel, explain, export, extradite, forward, hand forward, hand on, hand over, impart, import, interpret, make over, metabolize, metamorphose, metaphrase, metastasize, metathesize, move, mutate, paraphrase, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, perfuse, relay, render, reword, rewrite, send, ship, spell out, spread, switch, transcribe, transfer, transfer property, transfigure, transform, transfuse, transliterate, translocate, transmit, transmogrify, transmute, transplace, transplant, transport, transpose, transubstantiate, turn, turn into, turn over